nelz wrote:The distro shouldn't have to support VMWare. VMWare are the people charging huge amounts of money for their software, it's up to them to ensure it works on the computers of the people they want to sell it to.

Couldn't have put it better myself. Personally I think the Workstation edition is way overpriced (although I did get v4.5 for £30).

It's worth noting, for those who've not tried QEMU recently, that it now has an accelerater module. This essentially makes it a virtual machine like VMware rather than an emulator -- so it's much, much faster. I do a lot of OS testing via QEMU and it rocks

Has bochs got any better recently? I haven't tried it in a very long time.
Win4Lin is a good alternative to VMWare if you are looking for a commercial package. As far as I am aware if you are the member of a LUG your LUG admin should be able to get you a discount on it (was true a couple of years ago when I applied for our LUG to be part of the program)

I use it to run Linux on Linux most of the time. Xen is not suitable for distro testing as it requires modified kernels. It also has the great advantage that you can suspend a running machine, much like suspending a laptop, so firing up a particular distro to check something is much faster. I have around a dozen VMs suspended and ready to fire up in a few seconds, only one of them is Windows.

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Albert Einstein)

VMware has suspend as well . It would be good if VMware had DirectX support included. Then gamers could have Windows Running on Linux if they wanted to play their fave games that havent yet been made for Linux. But then there is always Cedega.
Is there another VM program that has DirectX support?

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